According to the report, dark mode for Waze began rolling out in an “alpha” version of the app last month. It is a special build (version 4.78) that is available only to a small group of users. Since the feature is in the initial stages of development, is extremely unstable and contains “many” bugs. As you can see in the attached screenshots below, some areas have not been properly dark-themed yet. Following the early testings, and some bug fixing, dark mode support for Waze could finally arrive in the beta channel. So it should be safe to assume that there’s some time to go before the feature becomes ready for prime time. We will be keeping an eye on it and will keep you posted.
Waze is testing a “proper” dark mode
Waze is testing a “proper” dark mode
Pretty much every major mobile app now offers a dark theme. Most apps follow your device’s system dark mode settings though you can also set individual settings for some apps. This ensures that you don’t suddenly encounter a bright screen while everything else is dark, which can be unpleasant and, at times, dangerous too. However, Waze has been lacking this feature all this while. Well, Google has been quite slow in adding dark mode support to its navigation apps. Google Maps picked up the feature earlier this year when most other Google apps have had it for quite a long now. Waze is next in the pipeline, it seems. Waze does already offer a “partial” dark mode though. It makes the map and other in-map buttons dark but the rest of the interface remains bright. The app also recently added other fun, and limited-time, theming options such as Cat and Dog themes. But a “proper” dark mode never came. Finally, more than two years after most other apps added the feature, Waze is preparing it as well. The new report tells that users will be able to either always turn on dark mode, have the app follow the system dark mode settings, or schedule to enable dark mode at night only. Hopefully, it will not take the company much longer to roll out the feature publicly.
